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Preschool STEM Activities: Preschool Teachers’ Preparation and Views

Early Childhood Education Journal, 2020
The aim of this study was to determine preschool teachers' STEM training, STEM classroom activities, lesson planning processes, problems, and evaluation strategies and methods during activities. The study sample consisted of 20 preschool teachers. Participants were recruited using criterion sampling, which is a purposive sampling method.
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Estonian preschool teachers' views on learning in preschool

Early Child Development and Care, 2013
As in many Western countries, children's learning in the curriculum of Estonian Early Childhood Education is seen as a lifelong process, wherein the teacher is primarily a guide to children's active learning. Thus, a child-centred approach to learning is valued in the national curriculum, but our interest was whether this approach is fixed in the ...
Aino Ugaste, Maire Tuul, Katrin Niglas, Evelyn Neudorf   +3 more
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Preschool teachers' perspectives on planning and documentation in preschool

Early Child Development and Care, 2014
This article is based on a research project focusing on Norwegian teachers' planning and documentation of children's learning in preschool. Norwegian preschools follow a national curriculum and teachers are obliged to document both professional practice and learning outcomes. The aim of the article is to investigate teachers' experiences of challenges,
Torgeir Alvestad, Sonja Sheridan
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The Role of Preschools and Preschool Teachers: Icelandic preschool educators' discourses

Early Years, 2003
The purpose of the study was to investigate how preschool teachers in Iceland view early childhood education and the professional preschool teacher. Focus groups consisting of early childhood educators in Iceland were interviewed. Each of four focus groups comprised educators who held similar positions.
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Preschoolers’ Difficult Questions and Their Teachers’ Responses

Early Childhood Education Journal, 2019
This qualitative study examined preschoolers’ difficult questions and their teachers’ responses to them. Data were gathered via interviews with 324 preschool teachers, who were asked two questions: “Could you please share the questions you have been asked by preschoolers in your classroom that were difficult for you to answer?” and “How did you answer ...
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Teacher and students’ translanguaging practices in a Malaysian preschool

International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
Su-Hie Ting, Lipina Jintang
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Teacher qualifications and development outcomes of preschool children in rural China

Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2020
Lei Wang, Ruirui Dang, Yu Bai
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Teacher's Role in a Therapeutic Preschool

Exceptional Children, 1969
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Preschool teachers’ learning opportunities in their initial teacher education and in-service professional development – do they have an influence on preschool teachers’ science-specific professional knowledge and motivation?

International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Julia Barenthien, Elisa Oppermann, Yvonne Anders   +2 more
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The associations between teacher-child relationships and academic skills: A longitudinal study among Chinese preschool children

Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2021
Bi Ying Hu, Virginia E Vitiello
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